} + | dry surface,weapons development |
TX-39 primary | style="text-align:center;" | | | | Mockup of the TX-39. Left a visible Crater off Runit Island, next to
Cactus Dome, in diameter. |- !
Cherokee | 17:50:38.7 | style="text-align:center;" | MHT (11 hrs) || Namu (Charlie), Bikini Atoll | 0 + | free air drop,weapons development |
TX-15-X1 | style="text-align:center;" | | | | The United States' first air deliverable thermonuclear device. Navigation error landed weapon off aim point (Namu), negated effects data gathering and placing unprotected military personnel facing the blast they had been arranged to have their backs to. The air force identified the test technician that disclosed the miss as Airman First Class Jackson H. Kilgore, for which he was reprimanded. Effects test, but also an international political statement about readiness to drop thermonuclear weapons. |- !
Zuni | 17:56:00.3 | style="text-align:center;" | MHT (11 hrs) || Eninmen (Tare), Bikini Atoll | + | dry surface,weapons development |
Mk-41 Bassoon | style="text-align:center;" | | | | First test of 3 stage device. Clean version using lead tamper, 85% fusion;
Tewa is dirty version of same bomb. Design evolved into Mk-41, largest deployed US bomb. |- !
Yuma | 19:56:?? | style="text-align:center;" | MHT (11 hrs) || Aomon (Sally), Enewetak Atoll | + | tower,weapons development | Swift | style="text-align:center;" | | | | Smallest ( diameter), lightest () air defense warhead to date, a boosted, asymmetrical linear implosion device. Fizzled when boost didn't work. |- !
Erie | 18:15:29.3 | style="text-align:center;" | MHT (11 hrs) || Runit (Yvonne), Enewetak Atoll | + | tower,weapons development |
TX-28C primary | style="text-align:center;" | | | | Test of boosted primary for TX-28C (for "clean") thermonuke. |- !
Seminole | 00:55:30.0 | style="text-align:center;" | MHT (11 hrs) || Bokon (Irene), Enewetak Atoll | + | dry surface,weapons development |
TX-28 primary | style="text-align:center;" | | | | Exploded in a water tank to simulate underground nuke test. Left crater . |- !
Blackfoot | 18:26:00.3 | style="text-align:center;" | MHT (11 hrs) || Runit (Yvonne), Enewetak Atoll | + | tower,weapons development | | style="text-align:center;" | | | | Small air defense prototype. A near-minimal diameter spherical implosion system, in diameter. |- !
Flathead | 18:26:00.1 | style="text-align:center;" | MHT (11 hrs) || NE Lagoon, Bikini Atoll | 0 + | barge,weapons development |
TX-28S | style="text-align:center;" | | | | TX-28S (for "salted") test, intentionally dirty high fallout, 73% fission. |- !
Kickapoo | 23:26:?? | style="text-align:center;" | MHT (11 hrs) || Aomon (Sally), Enewetak Atoll | + | tower,weapons development | Swallow | style="text-align:center;" | | | | Linear implosion, air defense warhead test. |- !
Osage | 01:13:53.1 | style="text-align:center;" | MHT (11 hrs) || Runit (Yvonne), Enewetak Atoll | 0 + | free air drop,weapons development |
XW-25 | style="text-align:center;" | | | | Proof test of XW-25. |- !
Inca | 21:26:?? | style="text-align:center;" | MHT (11 hrs) || Rujoru (Pearl), Enewetak Atoll | + | tower,weapons development |
XW-45 Swan | style="text-align:center;" | | | | Test of tactical warhead, evolved into XW-45. |- !
Dakota | 18:06:00.2 | style="text-align:center;" | MHT (11 hrs) || NE Lagoon, Bikini Atoll | 0 + | barge,weapons development |
TX-28C | style="text-align:center;" | | | | Prototype of XW-28C. Became the most versatile, widely used design in the US, from 1958 to 1990. |- !
Mohawk | 18:06:?? | style="text-align:center;" | MHT (11 hrs) || Ebiriru (Ruby), Enewetak Atoll | + | tower,weapons development | Swan/Flute | style="text-align:center;" | | | | |- !
Apache | 18:06:00.2 | style="text-align:center;" | MHT (11 hrs) || Elugelab (Flora), Enewetak Atoll | 0 + | barge,weapons development |
XW-27 / Zither | style="text-align:center;" | | | | Same primary as
Lacrosse; Prototype of XW-27 warhead for
Regulus missile. |- !
Navajo | 17:56:00.3 | style="text-align:center;" | MHT (11 hrs) || NE Lagoon, Bikini Atoll | 0 + | barge,weapons development |
TX-21C | style="text-align:center;" | | | | 95% fusion, cleanest shot fired until 1958. |- !
Tewa | 17:46:00.0 | style="text-align:center;" | MHT (11 hrs) || Yurochi aka Irioj (Dog), Bikini Atoll | 0 + | barge,weapons development |
Mk-41 ? "Bassoon Prime" | style="text-align:center;" | | | | 87% fission; first US 3 stage device, dirty version of Bassoon tested in
Zuni, with tamper change. Developed into Mk-41. |- !
Huron | 18:16:00.1 | style="text-align:center;" | MHT (11 hrs) || Elugelab (Flora), Enewetak Atoll | 0 + | barge,weapons development |
XW-50 ? Proto "Egg" | style="text-align:center;" | | | | 2 Stage thermonuke, XW-50 prototype. |} ==Gallery==